Business Tourism Activities Tourism Industry

Question: Describe about the Business Tourism Activities for Tourism Industry. Answer: Introduction Tourism is the activities of people traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for leisure, business or other purposes for not more than one consecutive year. Tourism is an industry that requires customers need and desires as customer satisfaction. South Bank is one of the tourism places in Brisbane that everyone needs to experiences even the local or tourist. South bank give the experience to enjoy culture, shopping, dining or simply relaxing. South Bank has a destination that tourist need to visit, such as The Parklands, Little Stanley Street, Grey Street and Cultural Precinct, River Quay. One of the must visits at Parklands is streets beach, it is known as South Bank icon. Sustainability Management Issues Sustainability management is defined as a way of sustainable in term of way to.. South Bank Corporation is continually working on sustainable future to create South Bank to be sustainable and it is expected to be the first community in Australia to achieve a Silver Certification from EarthCheck and international sustainability certification of travel and tourism. This field trip report will discuss the management issues at South Bank. There are two main issues, water usage and waste with the recommendation to the sustainability issue. Water Usage Water is really important to South Bank Parklands because all the resources are relying on the water to maintain all the public area. At the current South Bank are using potable water to top up swimming pool and backwash for the toilet flushing in varied public toilets. Potable water is unable to use it for irrigation or water features, as water in the pool was limited. The water for irrigation is declined from 250 kL/day to 50 kL/day (Engineers Australia, 2014). The general manager at South Bank is also trying to minimise the water usage by developed Rainbank, it is also known as South Banks innovative stormwater harvesting and reuse centre. Rain Bank was built in 2011 and it can store water up to 77 megalitres of stormwater each year, which is enough for South Bank to provide 85% of Parklands irrigation and potable water (Sustainability at South Bank, 2013). The total amount of construction cost approximately $9M and it cost around $2.00 per KL for the maintenance and operations. ( Engineers Australia, 2014). South Bank had a decision to remove mangroves and this situation will affect water quality in the Brisbane River. Based on the University of Queensland mangroves of remove mangroves would have an impact to Brisbane River water, erosion mitigation and wildlife (The Sydney Morning Herald, 2010). Waste Another issue at South Bank is a waste, the corporation is finding the way to reduce the number of waste each day as this would have an impact on the environment. The project they have in place is to have a recycling programs, such as fluorescent lighting, batteries, paper products, green waste, oil glass and aluminium products and use bio-friendly products instead (sustainability at southbank, 2016). As well as, trying to install recycling bins around South Bank for the public to use. The issue from waste is also a loss of valuable resources and that can cost to the community including; landfill requirement, resource and energy consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions. Despite the way of managing water resource will have a long term impact on sustainability for the local and business. That is because the number of water usage is increasing everyday from the tourist and local, so this is the main thing that South Bank corporation need to focus on water efficiency. Recommendations Sustainable tourism development, the concept began for the objective of giving recognition to the economical side of tourism which should be made important and its impacts. To be honest tourism destroys natural resource by exposing it to mankind. Sustainable tourism promotions are made for addressing issues like wastages and water usage negligence. The concept has been well embraced. But the theoretical link in between sustainable tourism and the actual context is not understood. With the increased importance of tourism one can accept that the longevity of any resource depends on how diligently it is used. The need of achieving balance in between large scale environmental interest and commercial is high. Due to the intricacies of various products of the tourism industry and its fragmentation way of organization, there is inconsistency in sustainable tourism on a global scale. Hence, many times the structure of tourism industry is not fitting well with the principles of alternative de velopment and hence it is suggested that it should be followed (Berno, 2011). The more the awareness for natural resources are increasing for the coming generations, practices which are environmental friendly and sustainability are gaining more and more attention and importance (Honey, 2008). In the opinion of (Sloan et al, 2009), employees, customers and stakeholders have high increasing expectations from this industry. This is in relation to responsible behavioral practices, concern for environment, social and environmental subjects. Pollution free workflow encouraging sustainable business practices is of utmost importance from the stakeholders point of view as well. Their response has showed enhanced interest in this field. It is true that more and more hotels today use sustainable work practices. But the number of such hotels can be counted in the minorities. Efforts and costs needed for this can be blamed to be the reason for slow adoption of such practices. The government however is making extraordinary measures to preserve the world's ecosystem in every manner possible. Conclusion: The entire field trips a study which focus on the encouragement and recommendations of the government for using controlled approaches so it harnesses limited negative effect on nature. Various institutional instruments of economical nature are used to its greater potential for overcoming deficiencies in the market for driving tourism and enterprise towards better business practices and sustainability. Policy makers, investors and stakeholders are developing an insight with such studies for implementing new sustainable ways of tourism development. Reflection South Bank over long years has held the credit to have a reputation to be one of the topmost tourist destinations in the world. For the host community out there tourism has a great impact. Such impact is positive and negative as well. The effects of tourism can be overwhelming. Changes in natural environment are one big factor. It do helps fund generation, preservation of economy etc The field trip made to South Bank for this project has given the team powerful insights about the various aspects and issues faced by the society owing to tourism. It has made us realize what the importance of sustainable tourism is. Government here promotes tourism as it is offering a potential opportunity for job creation, income generation for the nation and revenue creation for the government. No matter how fruitful the industry be, it has a destructive force associated with it. Such destructive force is associated with negative external factors and such problems were viewed and understood in this trip. Only with proper planning and effective management sustainable tourism can be developed. 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